Cue-tip drier



segg'. 27,1927.

F. ALEXANDER CUE TIP DRIER Filed May l0, 1927 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL.

Inll -llll ttorng' Patented Sept. 27, 1927.

i entre FRANK ALEXANDER, OF ROCHESTER, INDIANA.

CUE-TIP DRIER.

Application led May 10, 1927.

My present invention has to do with the drying of tips on billiard cues; and it contemplates the provision of a simple and easily used device through the medium oi which tips may be dried and set on billiard and other cues adequately and in a very short period of time, and this with little or no effort on the part of the user ot the device and in such manner that the eues are out of the way while the drying' process is proceeding, and the cues are not subject to be affected by atmospheric conditions which frequently, when the cue is set in the atmosphere, delay and interfere with the dryine; ot a newly applied tip on the cue.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying' drawing, forming: part ot' this specification Figure 1 is a front elevation ot the cue tip drier constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same taken at right angles to Figure 1.

Figures 3 and 4 are detail views hereinafter explicitly referred to. Figure 4t being a horizontal section taken on the plane indicated by the line 4 4 of FigureQ looking downwardly. y

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views of the dra-wing. p

Among other elements, my novel device comprises a bracket 1 fixed to a wall or other support designated by 2.

The bracket 1 is provided in its upper side' with a plurality otl pockets 3, pret'- erably arranged in circular series as illustratechand designed to receive and seat and hold the heel `ends of` cues such `as shown by dotted lines in Figure 2 and designated lo 4.

yArranged an appropriate distance above the bracket 1 is the oven 5 of my novel drying device. The said oven 5 is preferably, though not necessarily, of sheet metal, and is provided in its lower wall with apertures G tor the reception and passage oft cues, the said apertures 6 beingpreferably arranged in a circular series and with the apertures in c0- incidence with the before mentioned pockets 3 in the bracket 1.

Within the purview of my invention, the oven 5 may be maintained in any appropriate Serial No. 190,230.

manner in spaced relation above the bracket 1. I pre'ler, however, to intcrpose between and connect with the bracket 1 and the oven 5 a vertical central rod-like support 7, and I also pre'ter to interpose between and connect to the bracket 1 and the oren 5 upright supports such as 8, the latter beine; arranged at diamctrically opposite points and preterably at or adjacent to the perimeters of the bracket 1 and the oven 5. From this it 'follows that the bracket 1 and the oven 5 will be maintained in fixed relation to a wall or other upright support such as 2. In this connection I would have it understood that a body may be employed at the point 2 to carry the bracket 'l and the oven 5. and the said body E). may be screwed or otherwise 'fastened to a wall or other appropriate support in a pool or billiard room or other miartment in a building'. In this connection it will bc `noticed that an upper bracket 9 is interposed between and connected to the body 2 and the rod-like central support 7 with a view to holding the oven 5 against gravitation away 'lroni the body 9. or the wall as the case may be.

In the oven 5 and preferably in the center thereof is an inczmdcsecnt electric lamp 10 which constitutes an cllicient heating' agent. The said lamp is designed to be connected in conventional manner with an appropriate source oi electric current supply.

It will he apparent tt'rom the ii'orcgoing that eues to which t'reslrtips have been applied may be expeditiously and easily placed in my novel device in the manner indicated, so that the tip bearing portions ot the cues will be within the oven 5 and about the lamp 10. `When so disposed. the oven beiner heated by a lamp oi about seventy-five watts. the tips will dry perfectly and. without liability ot' burning in a temperature ot about one hundred and twenty decrees F.

It will also be appreciated that the cues may be readily placed in and removed 'from my novel device, and incident: to the drying operation the eues will he held in a space ot small compass without liability ot` any one ot the cues being accidentally displaced, and during the drying operation, the tip bearing; portions oit the cues are not subjected to any chantre ot temperature. A rain it will be appreciatcd` that my novel device is adapted to be disposed in a corner or other out ot the way place in a room, and that when properlyembellished, my novel demy novel device whereupon in a couple of hours the tips Will be perfectly dry and the cues *ill be ready to put back into commission.

'ln theV preferred illustrative embodiment of my invention. theoven 5 comprises a bottom Wall 11 and a hood portion 12, the hood portion 12 carrying; the lamp 1()y in its top and being' hinged at 13 to the bottom wall 11, so that when desired. the hood portion i2 may be swung laterally toward the left in Figure 1 to the position shown in Figure 8 so as to afford ready access to the interior of lthe oven. The flexible connection-s 14 complementary to the lamp 10 'do not interfere in any measure with the hood portion 12 bein'p; swung'y oil and on the bottom Wall 11: and it will be understood that it preferred the tips may be glued to the cues While the upper portions oi the cues are vplaced as shown in Figure 2 and then the,

hood portion 12 may be swung over the upper end portions of the cues and on the bottom Wall 11 so as to confine the heat `given or? by the lamp 10 in the oven and thereby accelerate the drying the cue tips. It will also be manifest that bv virtue of the hinge connection 13 of the hood portion 12 the cue tips may be conveniently inspected at intervals with a vievv to ascertaining, when they are perfectly dry and set.

l have entered into a detailed description ot the construction and relative arrangement o' the parte embraced in the present and preferred embodiment ot my invention in order to impart a full. clear, and exact understandino` ot the said embodiment.

l do not desire. however, to be understood as limiting myself to the precise structure shown and described. mv'invention being defined bv my appended claims Within the scope of which modifications may be made Without departure from my invention.

Leaaaoa Having thus described the invention, whatl series of apertures therein fixed to the upright' support, and also including a hood hingedly connected to said bottom wall and svvingable on and oiil the same, a 'support interposed between. and? connected to the bracket and the bottom Wall of the oven, and an incandescent electric lanipcarried by the top Wall of the hood and adapted When the hood is positioned above the bottom Wall of the oven toheat the interior lof the oven.

2. A cue tip drier comprising a support for cues, an oven maintained in spaced relation above' said support and having apertures in its bottom Wall for the reception of cues, and'means in the oven for affording heat with a view to drying tips on the cue portions Within the oven.

3. A cue tip drier 'comprising'. a bracket, an oven supported in spaced relation above said bracket and having' apertures in its bottom Wal-l for the reception of the tip bearing portions of eues, and an incandescent electric lamp disposedin the oven and carried by the top` Wall thereof.

4. A. cue tip drier comprising a cue support, and an oven disposed in yspaced relation to said support and having'a Wall With apertures for the passage of thetip bearing; Vportion of cues and also having` a hood movable'toY and from opposedfrelation to said Wall, and an incandescent electric lamp provided 'with flexible electric connections and carried by the Wall" of the hood in opposed relationto the said aqoertured Wall and adapted to move with the hood to and from the opposed relation to the apertured Wall.

5. An oven for drying cue tips, adapted to be heated, land having; an apertured Wall for the passage of the tip bearing portions et cues; the said oven having in addition to said apertured Walla hood hingedly cenneeted to the Wall, and an incandescent elec 

